Nov 29, 2014

Doing some looking back. The making of Chasing Amy doesn't feel that long ago…but I guess it's been a while. This movie comes up at least once at every signing appearance we do. I shared my first movie scene with the great Ethan Suplee (with his awesome back to us here) with the opening line of, "I love Chow Yun-Fat, but I don't think he'd be right to play Madman". Now, where's my Oscar!

And speaking of Oscars, Ben Affleck won his first for co-writing Good Will Hunting very soon after this. Look how much he's enjoying reading that MADMAN collection! The Universe has just opened!

Notice how my booth is completely opposite of Ben & Jason's (Holden & Banky's). It was great fun getting to know everyone including Scott Mosier on the left (the Producer), who I met for the first time in San Diego the same time I first met Kevin Smith, and Ben's younger, and extremely talented brother Casey Affleck. The big Madman poster in the background is to my right from where I'm sitting.

Somewhere I have lots of behind the scenes footage that I shot of this day, including take after take of the great Jason (Syndrome/Buddy Pine) Lee thrashing Scott Mosier.

And, of course, the amazing Joey Lauren Adams! I was privileged to draw her on the cover of the CHASING AMY comic seen at the end of the film. Jason is sporting a Madman "Excite-ning Bolt"from that year's "Fall Collection". A new version of the shirt is now available in the "Shirt Shop" (at right)!

Here's "Jay & Silent Bob" (The hilarious Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith) looking at the latest issue of BLUNTMAN & CHRONIC (with my cover art). I designed their costumes, and drew all of the art attributed to Banky & Holden. With a great deal of help from my great pal, Matt Brundage, I did the opening title sequence too (with Laura's colors of course). I have so many great memories associated with this movie and its production...

Kevin had a giant condo at the Sundance Film Festival where CHASING AMY debuted that a bunch of us stayed in ( I think Miramax sprung for it. Not sure). The film received an extremely enthusiastic standing ovation at its screening. Lots of famous faces in the crowd. I remember being pretty excited about meeting Roger Ebert (even though he'd slammed a lot of my favorite movies). The after-parties were insane. Joey wanted to keep going and going (it was her week after all). Because I was the only one with experience driving in the snow I ended up being the one behind the wheel of the rented SUV. We plowed through some serious banks of snow going to various fancy mountain homes. A thrill, but I was terrified of being responsible for wrecking a vehicle full of so much talent on their big night.

Look who Ben's hiding behind at the end of the flick! That's Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada (super swell fellas! You may have heard of them!)!

Nov 28, 2014

Feature a cool comic shop and shoot to NUMBER ONE!
Wait! What's that on the wall in the back?!

I get a big kick out of stuff like this, when our stuff squeezes into the Pop Culture Zeitgeist.
So, I'll admit to having a great time being able to show off these stills when Madman, Hellboy,The Goon, and other indies were featured heavily in the earliest appearances of the Comic Shop on TBBT!

Sheldon expresses the joy of smelling new comics getting unboxed (in the background).

Also happy to report that the Big Bang cast were all staying at the same hotel as us at SDCC and all of them could not have been nicer to us and our kids when we were all at the pool together. Terrific folks!

Laura had actually met Johnny Galecki years before when he was on the ROSEANNE Show and had a great impression of him then. Always nice to see good folks do well.

Nov 26, 2014

Here's the last free sneak peek, Gang! The book is in stores now so
get yer own, ya cheapskates! Our great friend, David Mack,
showed us the way on this lil' cut-n-paste cube, but we took it a
step further with Christian LeBlanc's 3D mastery on each surface.
Now go get out the scissors and glue and cut up yer book!

Nov 25, 2014

Paolo Leandri's just concluded four-issue NIGHTWORLD (with Adam
McGovern. Hope there'll be more to come!) is one of my most favorite
chunks of glorious weirdness I've seen in a very long time. So you can
imagine how thrilled I with what he did with my "Madman world" here:

Nov 22, 2014

Ian is an up and comer whose art demands your attention. You can start
by checking out his mind-blowing shorts in BATMAN ETERNAL #11,SECRET ORIGINS #4, and this last year's DETECTIVE COMICS #27 Special. Exciting, unique, and rich with detail!

Nov 21, 2014

We just got our copies of the book and we're crazy excited for everyone
to see it for themselves when it hits the stands this next wednesday!
We'll use this "cross view" preview of Declan & Jordie's piece as an excuse
to celebrate this personal event. The book is a completely different and
much smoother viewing experience with the glasses (well, you don't
have to cross your eyes for one thing). Many who've seen the book
have said it's their favorite printed 3D experience. Thank you to everyone
who joined in the party, and especially our "3D master, Christian LeBlanc!

Joe is the first contributor to have reported seeing the finished book
as his comp copies showed up on his doorstep already. And so to
celebrate its "in-print reality" we're posting yet another preview piece.

Nov 18, 2014

The countdown to the MADMAN 3D special continues with another
thrilling sneak peek preview! The artist/co-creator of the phenomenal
graphic novel, SABERTOOTH SWORDSMAN came up with this masterpiece.
Are ya getting good at crossing your eyes to make the third (3D) image
between the two yet? Practice makes perfect.

Nov 9, 2014

Hi Gang! Christian LeBlanc has officially finished all the
3D conversions and we are currently on schedule to have theMADMAN In Your Face 3D Special on your favorite comic shop's
shelf by the end of the month! There's so much ginchiness in the
book that I'm happy to preview several side by sides without feeling
like I'm giving too much away. Here's Marcos Martin's killer
contribution! As the images we've released before, just click on
the double image to make it bigger, and slightly cross your eyes
making a third 3D image in the center. And remember, the
Special will come with custom Madman 3D specs so you won't
have to worry about your eyes getting stuck (you're gonna look
silly either way). But here, no specs needed: